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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by thaumasiotes on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:41AM (#17757768)
> They also have an incentive to get you the least expensive fridge with the longest lifetime, regardless of power consumption or any other factors.

Sure, as long as you assume higher power consumption doesn't increase the cost of operating the fridge.

If you're not willing to assume that, then "regardless of power consumption" doesn't make a lot of sense.

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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by throwaway8689 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:26PM (#17759321)
If the buyer/owner of the of the fridge is the landlord but the user and power bill payer is the renter then the landlord has little incentive to care about power consumption.
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